For some reason, women never like themselves as they are. They are always looking to further improve, repaint and bring to perfection. First and foremost, ladies rush to argue with Mother Nature about their own hair color. Experiments begin at a young age, when girls try to express themselves through pink strands and blue bangs. Then comes a series of constant repainting and discoloration, until it is time to deal with gray hair.
How to stop torn between a blonde and a brunette and find your perfect hair color, while from such experiments they are not completely weakened?
Types of hair coloring
Every change in the native color is a serious stress for the hair. We remove pigments from them and replace them with new ones, lighten them or make them darker - and all this with the use of aggressive chemistry. In fact, there are several different ways to change their "suit", and not all of them are disastrous for the hair. So it is worth considering the options.
Classic
Coloring in one tone is known since ancient times, but still has not gone out of fashion. This procedure is used to completely change the natural color of hair, giving the head of hair brightness, masking gray strands. The method consists in applying paint of one tone along the entire length of the curls.
Pros:
- Always trendy;
- With a certain skill, you can repaint at home alone;
- Does not take much time and is affordable;
- Large selection of colors.
Minuses:
- For one color, the color can be changed only by 2-3 tones;
- Improper selection of the product or failure to follow the instructions can damage the hair;
- Sometimes a plain "hat" looks unnatural.
Highlighting
One of the most interesting and versatile hair coloring techniques. This procedure is considered to be more benign, since only individual strands are exposed to chemical attack, but all the same aggressive substances are used here.
Classic highlighting involves bleaching individual strands. Their width can be any, but the thinner they are, the more natural the hairstyle looks. Such coloring allows you to turn into an “almost blonde” without cardinal burning of the hair with peroxide. Back highlighting is used on light hair, where the curls are alternately colored in a dark color. Here, oxidizing agents are not used, because harm is actually applied less.
Pros:
- It has a lasting effect - you can update every three to four months;
- Perfectly camouflages gray hair without radically changing hair color;
- Regrown roots are not striking;
- It looks interesting even without bright colors.
Minuses:
- Can not be done after dyeing and perm;
- Requires increased hair care;
- Highlighting should be performed by a master professional, otherwise there is a great risk of becoming a zebra.
Bleaching
This type of hair color change is also popular because, according to men, blonde women are the most attractive - and they know it. You can lighten up with the help of special chemicals that destroy the hair pigment.
Pros:
- Blondes look younger and more feminine;
- Blond hair softens coarse facial features;
- Quite a variety of colors - from dark blond to snow-white;
- After discoloration, you can experiment with any shades.
Minuses:
- Extremely unhealthy hair;
- After lightening, the hair needs special care and nutrition;
- Grown roots in a couple of weeks will give you an unnatural blonde.
Toning
This method of staining is considered the safest, but also opens up ample opportunities for you to more frequent experiments. Toning is performed using tint balsams, ammonia-free mousses, gels and semi-permanent dyes that do not contain aggressive chemicals. Pigments remain on the surface of the hair, not penetrating into its depth.
Pros:
- Careful attitude to hair;
- Natural color becomes much brighter, intense brilliance appears;
- You can often change the shade of the hair;
- Some products contain vitamin supplements that nourish and strengthen curls;
- Use after classical coloring or decolouration is allowed;
- It is easy to repaint itself.
Minuses:
- Artificial tone is quickly washed out;
- You can not drastically change the native color;
- For dyed and gray hair, the shade needs to be selected very carefully.
Criteria for choosing hair color
Skin type
To choose a suitable color, you need to determine the tone of your skin. Look at the wreaths on the inside of the wrist: if they are blue, the skin tone is cold, if they appear green - warm.
You can test in front of a mirror with pieces of cloth of different colors. Bring to the face of any pink or orange thing from your wardrobe, and then blue or purple. Does the face look alive in the first case? So you are the owner of the same warm skin tone.
1. For girls with a warm yellowish tinge, any blond hair color of the same “temperature” will suit: wheat, amber, honey. If you want something darker, choose golden chestnut and close to him tone.
2. It is better for the owners of “cold” skin with pink, to choose a darker paint without yellow and red pigments: classic brown, walnut, black, dark blonde. Light cold range options are also allowed (ashy, silver, platinum blond).
3. Rare lucky women with neutral-tone skin can safely experiment with different shades.
4. And only those who have various defects on the face (eels, large pores) will have to limit their choices a bit, crossing out bright red colors.
Eye color
Yes, eyes also matter when choosing a new shade for hair. Nature “colors” us by its rules, and their gross violation often does not give the best result, although you can find very effective combinations.
1. Brown
The most common eye color, if we take into account the entire population of the Earth. This color scheme has several shades: dark brown, nutty, classic brown - which also needs to be considered when choosing the color of the curls. It is important not to allow an exact match of the color of the hair with the pigmentation of the iris.
The following tones will suit the owners of dark-brown eyes: chocolate, chestnut, black tulip, ebony. Undesirable radical clarification, especially if you also have dark skin - you just turn into your own negative. The color of milk chocolate, golden, caramel and amber shades is suitable for nutty irises. Pure brown eyes go well with a copper, light chocolate tone curls and mahogany.
2. Blue
They are considered the standard of beauty in the whole world, perhaps due to the fact that they rarely meet. This color is also many-sided: in addition to a pure blue tint, the eyes may have brown or red blotches, a gray undertone or a deep blue color scheme.
Women with blue eyes “with sparkles” can dye their hair red, warm caramel or golden tones. Pretty women with a gray-blue iris need to pay attention to the light-blond and close to them ashy shades. Pure blue and deep blue eyes are in perfect harmony with light brown and dark caramel colors.
But the warm wheat tone should be used with caution - with a blue iris it gives a typical Slavic combination, which requires the creation of a solid image of a Russian beauty, even in clothes. But blue eyes are available without exception, all dark colors - up to the blue-black.Such a bold combination always looks spectacular.
3. Gray
If the native shade of your eyes seems boring to you, we hasten to reassure you: in fact, this is a color-wagon, which is combined with almost any hair. Especially advantageous look warm blond and different shades of brown - from coffee with milk to rich chestnut and dark chocolate.
Care should be taken only with bright red tones and abandon the radical white and black colors. The first will make you invisible, the second will make you old for several years. In general, try to get away from the monotonous coloring, replacing it with a regular or two-color highlighting - then any shade will suit you.
4. Green
A rather rare and very multifaceted color. With him you need to be more cautious and take into account all the nuances of the shade of the iris when selecting a hair color. Here there are various options: bright green, bottle, marsh, as well as the tone with splashes of yellow and orange.
All green-eyed, without exception, fit bold red tones, but deliberately cold blondes and black hair are contraindicated. For light green eyes that are close to gray or blue, choose orange-red, chestnut and golden hues. Owners of iris marsh color is better to be brown-haired or choose a calm light brown color scheme. Eyes with yellow sparkles will perfectly harmonize with the head of hair saturated red, red or goldish tones.
Age
Young girls choose the hair color the easiest. They can safely experiment with shades, not forgetting to focus on their color type and trying not to torment the hair too aggressive colors.
After 30 it is necessary to completely abandon the monochromatic coloring. It is better to use 2-3 natural shades that will be only slightly darker or lighter than the “native” color.
Women over 40 are not recommended to use unnatural bright colors. When the hair is naturally light, give preference to platinum or copper-gold (only not red) shades. If you are brown, choose dark chocolate or caramel options. Ginger can be repainted in a noble copper or dark blond color. Under strict prohibition - ash blond and eggplant.
Ladies over 50, on the contrary, can add bright colors to their hairstyle, preferring rich natural shades of chestnut, blond or honey blonde. Optimally, if the new color is a couple of tones lighter than natural. Black and fiery-red are strictly prohibited.
For those over 60, gray gives a special charm. But this does not mean that you do not need to dye your hair at all or it is necessary to paint them more brightly - stick to the golden mean. Choose a light natural shade that will perfectly harmonize with your age and at the same time give a well-groomed look to your hairstyle. It can be a champagne color, caramel or honey blond.
A single rule that applies in all cases: pure black hair will invariably make you older. At the same time, an unsuccessful attempt to transform from a natural brunette into a hydroponic blonde will give a similar effect - it will add 5-6 years to your biological age.
What hair color to choose
1. All dark shades of brown color will suit the natural brown-eyed brown-haired woman. The main thing is that they do not coincide 100% with the color of the iris, but differ by at least one or two tones. Ladies older than 30-40 years old and those who want their hair lighter, it is better to dwell on milk chocolate and dark caramel tones or to highlight, highlighting individual strands.
2. Light-blue shades of a golden, caramel and sandy palette will help the blue-eyed blonde to emphasize her beauty. If the skin tone is cold, you can choose platinum or ashy blond, and for a cardinal change of image you can use any dark colors - up to black. Only in this case, get ready to regularly tint native light roots, otherwise it will seem that you have balding colors. For fair-haired beauties at the age of 30+ it is better to dwell on light-brown and honey shades.
3. Women with light brown or light chestnut curls, bright eyes and porcelain skin, regardless of their age, will suit all versions of brown-haired. You can experiment with the dark noble copper, but in any case not to try to turn into a blonde.
4. A young red-haired girl with green eyes should choose a copper or fiery red curls. A woman of the same color type, who has already stepped over a 30-year mark, is better to switch to dark blond, gold or caramel shades.
5. Dark-haired ladies with light blue and gray eyes, as well as a cold dark skin can even refuse to repaint them - they look incredibly impressive without it. But if you really want to change, try the cold nut and brown shades "with a frosty tint" or dark brown color.
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